It has been six months since Tim and Pikachu defeated Howard Clifford. Everyone is has been doing great. Lucy is a full time reporter for CNM. Tim got his Private Investigator license and has started his own detective agency which he named Detective Pikachu Investigates, with Pikachu as his partner. But Harry Goodman is still missing and Tim and Pikachu are working everyday on his case, hoping that they find him one day.
It was quiet day at the office. Tim and Pikachu were busy with Harry´s case, When suddenly they heard a knock on the door.
"Come in," said Tim.
A young pretty tan skinned woman, with brown hair in a elegant pink dress walked in. Pikachu stared at the woman and whistled
"Excuse me, are you Tim Goodman?" The woman asked.
"Yes, that's me," said Tim while he stood up to shake the woman's hand."How can I help you?"
"My name is Carina Mitchell," the woman said. "My violin has been stolen. "
"I'm sorry to hear that," Tim said. "Have you report this to the police?" Asked Tim.
"Well it's actually a little more complicated," Said Carina. "The violin that I was using was destroyed during rehearsal."
Tim and Pikachu looked at each other with a confused look and then back at the Carina.
"I'm sorry I don't follow you," Tim said confused. "Can you start at the beginning?" He asked.
"Yeah sure," Carina said. "I was supposed to perform at CNM tonight, but during they rehearsal a stage light fell on my violin and it broke into pieces."
"Okay and how do you know that your violin was stolen?"Tim asked.
"Because when I collected the pieces, I noticed that wasn't any message inside the violin," Carina answered.
Tim and Pikachu looked at each other.
"Very interesting, sounds like classic old case of the switch roonies," said Pikachu to Tim. "Let's solve this one."
Tim nodded his head.
"We will look into it Miss Mitchell," Said Tim.
"Thank you, Thank you so much," Carina said happily. "And please call me Carina."
"I will call you when we got something," Tim said while he was grabbing his coat.
Tim, Pikachu and Carina were about the leave the office, when Tim suddenly stopped.
"Oh one more thing, what is the message in the violin?" Tim asked.
"The message said: To my darling Carina, Even when I'm no longer with you. I will always love you and your music," Carina answered, while Tim wrote the message down in his notebook.
"I've got it, thank you for this information," said Tim to Carina.
The three left the office and Tim and Pikachu headed straight for CNM. Once they were inside they went to the scene of the crime. When Tim and Pikachu entered the room, they saw Lucy standing, Tim smiled and didn't move, but his smile was gone when some other young man started flirting with Lucy. It was Max Warhol the host Maxi and Chati, a comedy show that Max does with his Chatot.
"Hey kid, don't you worry," Pikachu said. "Just look at her, you can see that so not interested in him."
They looked back at Lucy who looked super bored and didn't listen to Max. When she looked up she saw Tim and Pikachu too and smiled. She walked toward the two. Tim could feel his heart pounding, his hands started to get sweaty.
"Here she comes kid. Act cool," Pikachu said to Tim.
"Hey Tim what are you doing here?" Asked Lucy happily.
"I'm for the incident with the violin," Tim said with confidence.
"Okay, but I thought it was accident?" Lucy asked.
"It's standard protocol, you know to build a good accident rapport," said Tim.
"Oh okay, if there's anything I can help with, just ask," Lucy said.
"Yeah, ask her for today's schedule, then we can make a time line," Pikachu said to Tim.
"Yeah actually, can you give me today's schedule?" Tim asked nervously.
"Sure I will get you one," Lucy said as she walked away.
A few minutes later Lucy was back with a piece of paper, she handed the piece of paper to Tim. Tim and Pikachu studied the schedule. Lucy walked away again.
"Okay Carina arrived at 2:30 pm," Pikachu said while he pointed at the schedule.
"And rehearsal started at 4:30 pm," Said Tim.
"But before the big rehearsal there was a sound check at 3:15 pm and toke 10 minutes," Said Pikachu.
"So the culprit had at least an hour to switch the violin, because in that hour Carina was in hair and make-up and the violin was putt backstage," Tim said.
"That means the culprit is someone in this room," Said Tim and Pikachu at the same time.
The two looked around the room, They looked at Max, Cynthia, some other people. At one moment at Lucy.
"You don't think Lucy would such a thing, do you?" Tim asked to Pikachu.
"You know how it works kid, you can't let your personal feelings get in the way of the job," Pikachu answered.
"Right, right, you're right," Tim said. "Let's get to work."
Tim and Pikachu started to ask some people in the room where they were in that hour that the violin was switched, but they didn´t mentioned anything about the violin being stolen. The people they asked, gave their answers. At one point the were about the ask Cynthia McMaster for her alibi.
"Excuse me Miss McMaster?" Tim said to her.
"Yes, what do you want?" Cynthia said rudely.
"I wanna ask you a couple of questions about the violin incident?" Tim asked.
"Why do you wanna know?" Cynthia asked. "I thought it was an accident."
"It's standard protocol miss," said Tim.
"Okay then." Said Cynthia. "What do you want to know?" Cynthia asked.
"Where you were between 3:30 pm and 4:30 pm today?" Tim asked.
"At that time I was in the control room, with Hiro our stage manager and after that I was in my dressing room preparing for tonight," Cynthia said to Tim.
"Okay thank you for your time," said Tim, while he wrote down her Alibi.
The next person they talked to was Max and Chatot.
"Hello Mister Warhol, can I ask you something?" Tim asked.
"Don't need to, I know what you want from me,"' Max said while he grabbed a photo of himself and signed it.
"Here you go my friend," Max said while he handed the photo to Tim.
"Thank you," Said Tim with confusion.
"Oh jeez this guy so full of himself," said Pikachu with an embarrassed voice.
"That's not what I wanted to ask you," said Tim. "I want to know where you were between 3:30 pm and 4:30?" He asked.
"I was in my dressing room with Chatot, practicing some jokes for tonight show," Max said.
"Practicing jokes, practicing jokes," Chatot repeated.
"Okay, thanks again," Tim said while he wrote down Max' alibi and walked away as fast as he could.
The next person they wanted to talk to was Lucy and her Psyduck. Tim took a deep breath and walked up to her.
"Hey Lucy can I ask you something?" Tim asked nervously.
"Sure you can ask my anything," Lucy said happily.
"Okay then here we go," Said Tim while stretching his head. "Where were you between 3:30 pm and 4:30 pm?" He asked.
"That's what you wanted to ask me?" Lucy asked disappointed.
"Yeah," answered Tim. "What do you thought I was going to ask?" Tim asked.
"Oh nothing special," Lucy answered fast and nervously.
Pikachu and Psyduck stood next to each other as they looked at their partners.
"Oh why are humans so bad that this." Pikachu said to himself.
"Psyduck Psyduck," said Psyduck.
"I know right, it so obvious," said Pikachu to Psyduck.
"To answer your question, I was just about to get lunch," said Lucy. "I knocked on Max door to ask him if he wanted anything, but he said that he was busy."
"Okay thank you," said Tim to Lucy and he wrote down her story.
A moment of awkward silent was present, but was quickly interrupted when a big scary looking woman enter the room, with her Purugly. Psyduck got scared and hid behind Lucy.
"I bet you she appears in a lot children's nightmares," said Pikachu to Tim while climb back on his shoulder and hid behind his head to hide from purugly
"That's Olga Ellison she's the assistant director CNM," Lucy said with fear in her voice
"Youngman what are you doing here?" Asked Olga with a strict voice to Tim.
"Hello Miss Ellison, I'm Tim Goodman and I'm a detective, here to investigate the violin incident," said Tim nervously.
"Okay fine then. But if you cause any trouble, I will have you kicked out of this building before you can say CNM," threatened Olga. "Got it?" She asked threatening.
"Got it," answered Tim scared. "But can I ask you a question." Tim asked nervously.
"If you do it quick," said Olga.
"Can you tell me where you were between 3:30 pm and 4:30 pm?" Asked Tim.
"If that's all. I was hiring new interns," said Olga. "So I was in my office all day."
"Thank you for your cooperation," said Tim to Olga as she walked away with Purugly, who stared at Pikachu.
"Wow she like an angry-...," Tim couldn't finish his sentence.
"Like an angry Ursaring ready to attack," said Lucy quickly. "Yeah I know."
Lucy looked at Tim and then walked away with Psyduck. Tim and Pikachu decided to go to the control to talk to Hiro and the rest of the staff. Once they were finished with the staff, they saw Hiro and talked to him. Hiro gives them stage plans, information about CNM employees and TV ratings. The two headed back to the studio. When they arrived at the studio Pikachu looked up to the stage lighting.
"Hey Tim, I'm going to take a closer look at the lights," said Pikachu to Tim.
"Okay be careful Pikachu," Tim said to Pikachu, who was climbing towards the light.
Tim walked towards the food table, to get some coffee for him and Pikachu. Tim saw Chatot eating some chips. While he's waiting for Pikachu, he started to take a look at the papers the Hiro gave him and whistled while doing so. Suddenly Chatot start to talk.
"Do you think you're worth working here," said Chatot with Olga's voice.
Tim looked at Chatot, at the same Max arrived and picked up Chatot and he walked away. Tim stared at the two and began thinking.
Meanwhile Pikachu was inspecting the lamps, suddenly he saw somethings lying close to one of the lamps. He walked closer and he saw some screws and nut lying around. He collected them and put them in his hat. He made his way back to Tim.
"Tim I need to show you something," Pikachu said.
"What do you need to show me?" Tim asked.
"Look at this," Pikachu said to Tim while he showed Tim the screws and nuts. "They were lying around the spot where the lamp was that felt."
"That's weird, you would think that these wouldn't be lying around like that," said Tim while he grabbed a plastic back and put the screws and nuts in.
"Unless the culprit, unscrewed them to make sure that the lamp fell," said Pikachu.
"But the culprit switched the violin so Carina wouldn't miss her performance," said Tim. ''Unless-…"
"There are two culprits!" Said Pikachu and Tim in harmony.
"One who wanted steal Carina's violin and didn't wanted her missing it," Said Pikachu.
"And one who didn't wanted Carina to perform tonight," said Tim. "Pikachu look at the papers that Hiro gave me."
Pikachu and Tim looked at the papers and then gave each other a confidence look. Tim grabbed his phone and called Carina. A few minutes later Carina arrived and Tim gathered everybody.
"Thank you all for coming," said Tim. "I know what happened to Carina's violin."
"We all know that, it was destroyed during rehearsal," said Olga.
"No, that wasn't Carina's real violin," Said Tim. "Hers was stolen and the culprit switched the violin with another one."
"Stolen?" Olga asked surprisingly.
"Yes, she told me that her violin had a message inside and once she collect the pieces she didn't saw any message," said Tim.
"But who stole it?" Asked Carina.
"You tell them Tim," Pikachu said to Tim.
"The person who stole Carina's violin is-...," said Tim. "It was you Max."
Tim pointed to Max and everybody looked at Max, who looked shocked.
"What-…., what that's ridiculous," said Max. "What would be my motive?" He asked.
"Money, you needed to money," said Tim. "Your show wasn't doing that great and there was chance big that CNM was going to let you go."
"But why would he steal her violin then?" Lucy asked.
"Carina has a pretty large fan base, I bet one of them would pay a lot of money to get their hands on her violin," said Tim.
"Even it's true about CNM letting me go, I've got an alibi." said Max.
"You were in your dressing room, but that wasn't really you," said Tim. "Lucy how many knocks did you give on Max's door?" Asked Tim.
"I gave three knocks and wait ten seconds and gave one more. That's what he wants," said Lucy.
"Something like this," said Tim while he knocked on the table and Chatot started talking again.
"I'm busy right now, come back later," Chatot said in Max voice.
"No Chatot don't-...," begged Max.
Everyone looked at Max again and Max knew that there was no way out.
"Fine it was me. I did it," Said Max. "I stole the violin."
"Where is it?" Asked Tim.
"I hid in the ventilation system in my dressing room," said Max.
"Oh Maxwell how could you?" Asked Olga furiously.
"But wait, that isn't all that I've," said Tim. "The lamp that fell on the violin, wasn't an accident."
Everybody looked shocked again and looked Max.
"Whoa I had nothing do with that," said Max.
"I know that it wasn't you, because you wanted her to perform," said Tim.
"Tim look who's trying to get away," Pikachu said to Tim.
"Where are you going Cynthia?" Asked Tim, while Cynthia was trying the sneak away.
"Oh, I was just gonna-...," Cynthia was trying come up with something.
"Trying to get away, because you were the one behind the accident," said Tim.
"How dare you accuse me of that," said Cynthia offended.
"Oh still trying to play innocent," said Pikachu.
"It's over I know that you were the one who unscrewed the lamp," said Tim. "That's why you were at control room to look at the stage plans."
"And why would I do such a thing?" Asked Cynthia while she crossed her arms.
"Because you wanted more screen time," said Tim.
Everyone looked at Cynthia who felled trapped.
"First some child takes over my spot," said Cynthia while she pointed to Lucy. "I still have a one year contract, so they gave me a show with less screen time."
"But you were about lose more screen time, because Hiro had the idea to let people preform during the show," said Tim. "At the cost of your screen time."
"I had do it," said Cynthia angry. "If I lost more screen time, I was going to lose my job."
"Oh Cynthia, Roger and I were about renew your contract and give more screen time," said Olga disappointed.
"What, I did all of this for nothing," said Cynthia surprised.
"Security get these two out here and make sure that they never show their face here again," said Olga.
Two security guard and their two Machamp escorted Max and Cynthia out. In the meantime Tim got Carina's violin from Max dressing room. Tim handed the violin back Carina. Olga walked up to the two.
"Miss Mitchell, would still preform tonight?" Asked Olga friendly.
"Sure I would be a honor," said Carina.
Olga walked away to her Purugly.
"Thank you, thank so much for your help," said Carina and planned a kiss on Tim's cheek. Which made Tim blush a little bit and Lucy jealous as she turned away.
Carina walked away to get ready for tonight's show.
"You did a nice job kid," Pikachu said to Tim.
Couldn't do it without you partner. Tim said to Pikachu while giving each other a high five.
Lucy and Psyduck walked up to them.
"Nicely done," Said Lucy.
"Yeah, you know just doing my job," Said Tim.
"So do you want to meet after the show?" Asked Lucy.
"Yeah, yeah that sound good," said Tim trying to hold in his excitement. "Wanna met in my office?" He asked.
"Okay I'll meet you there," Said Lucy. "Come on Psyduck."
Lucy and Psyduck walked away.
"Nice job you smitten Litten," Teased Pikachu.
"Oh be quiet," Tim said to Pikachu
Tim and Pikachu headed back to the office. When they arrived they saw a box lying by the front door. When they took a closer look, they saw that it was a package with Tim's name on it. Tim and Pikachu look at each other wondering what was in the package.
(So this was part 1 of my version the Detective Pikachu sequel. I choose this part from the videogame because I liked that chapter. The adventure is coming and I going to try to make fun for you guys.)